America’s Army: Proving Grounds is the official game of the U.S. Army and part of the highly acclaimed America’s Army game series. This free military game focuses on small unit tactical maneuvers and puts you to the test in new America’s Army maps as well as AA fan favorites Hospital and Bridge.

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About the Game

Do you have what it takes to train like a U.S. Army Soldier?

America’s Army: Proving Grounds is the official game of the U.S. Army and part of the highly acclaimed America’s Army game series. This free military game focuses on small unit tactical maneuvers and puts you to the test in new America’s Army maps as well as AA fan favorites Hospital and Bridge.

Take on the role of an 11B Infantryman practicing combat maneuvers at JTC Griffin, a fabricated training MOUT (military operations on urban terrain) environment. This training is crucial to your success as part of a Long Range Combined Arms – Recon (LRCA-R) unit, a full spectrum capable team that embarks on special operations missions behind enemy lines.

Key Features

Two Game Modes Experience fast-paced Battledrill Exercises (BDX) (6v6) that focus on small unit maneuvers. As you learn how the enemy might react, adjust your strategy for future engagementsForward Line Operations (FLO) (12v12) test your skills in a larger environmentHardcore mode has increased weapon damage and a reduced HUD

5 Mission TypesActivate - Activate all the objectivesExtract - Extract the objective to the rally pointC4 - Plant the C4 at one of the bomb sites and defend it until it explodesDestroy - Arm the objective and defend it until it detonatesTake and Hold - Activate all the objectives and prevent the enemy from activating objectives you control

Teamwork is CriticalSpotting enemies gives your teammates greater situational awarenessReviving your down buddies gets them back in the fightSecuring enemies prevents them from being revived and communicating with their teamReport your location and status to your teamSuppression affects your enemy even if you don’t hit them. Use the M249 to control firing lanes and keep the enemy’s head down while your team flanks their position

Train in Shoot HousesShoot Houses give you a place to learn how to use all the weapons in a single-player environment. They are fast-paced exercises that allow you to compete for the highest scoreCreate your own shoot houses in the Mission Editor

Mission Editor

Create your own missions and shoot houses with the AA:PG Mission Editor Share them on the Steam WorkshopView the Tutorial at http://aapg.americasarmy.com/editor/tutorialAs your skills with the Mission Editor increase, you can move to the Advanced Editor*The Mission Editor and Advanced Editor are developer tools that require more advanced hardware than what is required to run the game. Performance may vary.

About the Comic

The storyline that influences the America’s Army: Proving Grounds game is unveiled in the America’s Army Comic series. Learn more about the assignment you are on and the challenges you will face by reading the saga of American forces deployed to Czervenia, a tiny foreign nation in the middle of a chaotic conflict. In order to defend against Czervenian President-General Adzic and his army who are attacking the neighboring Republic of the Ostregals, America's Army has created new experimental combat teams, forged together in secret Proving Grounds, to uncover the General's insidious plot before time runs out. Read more at http://comics.americasarmy.com.

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-Good graphics (enough for a fps game)-Very realistic compared to every other fps games i've played!-One of the best communities I've seen-It's so much teamwork! The voice chat is being used all the time!

This has to be the best Free Military FPS on Steam without a doubt, recommend this to anyone who likes shooters. Although this is more tactical than most and teamwork is definitely required to complete objectives.

Love the combat, love the maps and even the graphics are pretty decent for a free game.

Pros:- Good graphics. Not the best but good.- Team Work using voice chat and awsome community that wants to help you- Super realistic game. Exept for the fact that they're using tracer ammo.- Its not pay to win! Get the full game! No other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ items or boosters.

Cons:- The game is a bit laggy even on Hi-Specs PCs.- Get good at it or die tryin'. You die very fast and you have to respawn in 2-3 minutes, if you don't listen to your team mates or your not paying attention.

Conclusion:

- Worths every cent! JK. But is a nice addition of Hardcore Realistic Tactical Team Based Games.

0/10 horrible--But really, in all honesty, I enjoy this game so much it's ridiculous. At first, I charged into battle like a madman, and got rekt like a marshmellow under an elephant. Then, I stayed back at spawn and got chewed out for being a coward. Finally, I stuck with the team, and did what they said, while doing my best to help them as well.

t;drThis is a strategic FPS game, and a pretty dang good one for being entirely free.

Pros:-It is a get good or die a lot game (People can put this in 'Cons' I think it makes the game better)-Great graphics (I am not saying it is the best don't get me wrong)-Play the entire game without spending a penny (Or what your currency is)-In game voice chat-Need to play more as a team to win-Fun with friends who enjoy the type of game

Cons:-Graphics can lag even on higher gaming riggs-When you start out you will find you suck... A lot (I said this was good but it can be bad as well)-If the team doesn't play as a team you can find yourself losing games very fast

I will say that the game has better graphics than expected and is very fun to play with people who also enjoy team-based games. The lag in graphics can get annoying (even a decent gaming rig,) but that is only on some maps while maps like 'Hospital' don't suffer from the issue.

If youre searching for what AA has originally been about, go play the first game, if you'd like to play small unit "tactical" maneuvers, that dont make you want to kill yourself because you cant get used to the controls and complexity, this might intresst you.

Neat F2P game that really is F2P, but this has very little to do with the old Americas Army

No DLCsNo Ingame shopsNo packs to buyNo unlockablesAll weapons and equipment are available for everyone right from the start!

America's Army: Proving Grounds is a multiplayer only FPS (First-Person Shooter).The community is friendly, helpful and values teamwork. I've played CS, Battlefield, CoD, Insurgency, Unreal, Homefront, Medal of Honor...You name it! I've played pretty much every competitive FPS out there!Basically i have tons of experience when it comes to multiplayer gaming and this little hidden gem is my most played multiplayer shooter in the past 2 or 3 years.The reason ? It's well balanced, the community is friendly and people ALWAYS use the ingame voice chat for teamwork! It's truelly amazing!

How do they manage to keep the game well balanced ? It's quite simple really. The game only has 5 primary weapons: 2 assault rifles (fully automatic and a burst-fire one. Both can be switched to single fire aswell), a sniper rifle, a shotgun and an LMG. All these weapons are available since the very beginning so a rank 30 player has the same weapons as a rank 1 player. The only advantage a higher ranking player can have is the knowledge of map layouts.You also have a sidearm which is just a pistol but it can come real handy.You also get one frag grenade and can choose between 2 fog, smoke or flash grenades. Also available from rank 1.

You do gain XP (experience points) with each kill, secure, revive and round/match won or lost and gaining XP helps you rank (level) up. The thing is that ranking up gives you nothing. No new weapons, no new equipment, health bonus, scopes or camos. Ranks only show how much a player has been playing the game. Nothing more.

You start each round with 100% of hp and 1 life. Once you get "killed" you cannot respawn untill a teammate revives you. If an enemy player gets to your body first he can secure you and your teammates cannot revive you anymore. In that case you have to wait untill the end of the round to get back into the fight.Headshots are an instant kill and you cannot be revived from those. Once you get shot you start bleeding out so you have to bandage yourself to stop the bleeding or you may die or just lose a lot of hp (health points).

There are 2 modes: Normal and Hardcore. Normal mode: You can spot enemies, use the minimap, teammates have blue names on their heads and you can see downed teammates. In the normal mode you can also see a yellow text that says you killed an enemy. This is disabled in the hardcore mode.Hardcore mode: There's no spotting enemies, minimap can be disabled or just doesn't show you enemies in certain distance (depending on the server settings), teammates don't have blue names on their heads so you have to be extra careful or you might teamkill your mates and shots are obviously more lethal.

The character movement is similar to CoD and newer BF titles. A lot of people complain about that but let us be honest here: This character movement is way more realistic than the clunky movement in AA2 or BF2. Everything about CoD is not bad. CoD has great and smooth character movement and i'm happy to see that it finally came to AA and BF.A lot of people say that it makes the game "CoDlike" but this is simply not true. It's still more strategic and requires more teamwork. Does bleeding out, reviving, securing and no respawns say CoD to you ? Yeah, didn't think so. It's not "CoDlike".

There's no reason not to try the game. It's free!When in doubt...Just give it a try!